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Schulze, E. D.; Weber, U.; Gebauer, G.: Die Bedeutung des Waldes zum Erhalt der Artenvielfalt der Gefäßpflanzen in Deutschland. Naturschutz und Landschaftsplanung 56 (03), pp. 34 - 38 (2024)
Li, W.; Reichstein, M.; O, S.; May, C.; Destouni, G.; Migliavacca, M.; Kraft, B.; Weber, U.; Orth, R.: Contrasting drought propagation into the terrestrial water cycle between dry and wet regions. Earth's Future 11 (7), e2022EF003441 (2023)
O, S.; Orth, R.; Weber, U.; Park, S. K.: High-resolution European daily soil moisture derived with machine learning (2003–2020). Scientific Data 9, 701 (2022)
Ruiz-Vásquez, M.; O, S.; Brenning, A.; Koster, R. D.; Balsamo, G.; Weber, U.; Arduini, G.; Bastos, A.; Reichstein, M.; Orth, R.: Exploring the relationship between temperature forecast errors and Earth system variables. Earth System Dynamics 13 (4), pp. 1451 - 1471 (2022)
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Kim, Y.; Garcia, M.; Morillas, L.; Weber, U.; Black, T. A.; Johnson, M. S.: Relative humidity gradients as a key constraint on terrestrial water and energy fluxes. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences 25 (9), pp. 5175 - 5191 (2021)
On June 24, Prof. Dr. Henrik Hartmann, head of the Julius Kühn Institute for Forest Protection and former group leader at the Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, received an important award for his scientific achievements in the field of forestry. Our warmest congratulations!
We have gained a new external member: Prof. Dr. Christian Wirth has been appointed by the Senate of the Max Planck Society as External Scientific Member. As a former group leader and later fellow at the institute, Prof. Wirth initiated and supported the development of the TRY database, the world's largest collection on plant traits.
Information gaps in global maps of plant characteristics can be filled with data from nature identification apps. Users of the iNaturalist app are playing a key role in helping researchers create global maps of plant traits. Among other things, the new maps provide an improved basis for understanding plant-environment interactions and for Earth system modeling.
An international research team has succeeded in identifying globally acting factors that cause the diversity of forms and functions of plants. Researchers compiled plant data from around the world and were able to show for the first time how strongly these are determined by climate and soil properties for characteristics such as the size, structure and life span of plants.